The Saucer of Larks. New York: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. Pp, 213. Beige cloth boards, title & decorated in gilt, in original pictorial dust jacket. light fraying to head & tail of jacket, neat ownership name and blind stamp to front free endpaper. A very good copy.

Brian Friel’s first published collection of short stories, notable for its quiet, rural Irish settings and themes of loneliness, disenchantment, and generational divides.

This first edition, published in America, precedes the UK publication. Scarce and collectible, especially with its jacket designed by Ellen Raskin.  A second collection of short stories ‘The Gold in The Sea’ followed in 1966.